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quicklyfrozen··on Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon
Because his point was that you need WebRTC to have access to UDP
quicklyfrozen··on Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon
Chrome doesn't bundle a plugin for hangouts, they use WebRTC. They use the plugin on other browsers that don't have WebRTC.
quicklyfrozen··on John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and background checks
Well, you do have more influence on your credit score then your IQ -- it is more reflective of your behavior and level of responsibility. Obviously some end up with bad credit through little fault of their own, but employers (mostly) aren't SJWs so they don't mind false negatives as long as there are more candidates.

Personally I don't think anyone who isn't extending you credit should have access to your report, but that will probably require a legislative change.

quicklyfrozen··on How a Car Engine Works
I doubt their goal here was to make repair more difficult -- after all, some must have failed under warrantee and were repaired on their dime. Sticking the starter in the valley instead of on the side just makes the engine package size a bit smaller (and the SC was a small car).
quicklyfrozen··on More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments
It certainly seems likely to break many of the private-but-not-elite schools as more students choose state schools. Many seem to cost just as much, if not more, then the ivies.
quicklyfrozen··on More Than 40% of Student Borrowers Aren’t Making Payments
And once you get that financial info from the schools you really don't have a lot of time to make a decision -- only a few weeks in many cases. Very little time to make a $160K+ commitment. (It took us a year to buy our first house and it wasn't much more then that...)
quicklyfrozen··on My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
For me it was things like "function_returning_array()[0]" working in JS but not PHP and other unexpected parsing weirdness like that. (Though I don't really mind PHP, just much of the code written in it :-) )
quicklyfrozen··on San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
You can collaborate effectively with remote people a couple time zones away. India is much harder -- also much harder to periodically bring everyone together for a few days.
quicklyfrozen··on San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
How many jobs if I'm getting close to 50? :-)
quicklyfrozen··on Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
I don't think so -- you'll need to do something like a git rebase, and there's no way to do that via the GitHub UI.

I know many don't like the 'dirty' history, but I like knowing exactly how the updates made it into my repo.

quicklyfrozen··on Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
You can create a PR from the upstream to your repo, then accept that PR. (I know, that's not immediately intuitive, but at least you can do it without pulling a local copy.)
quicklyfrozen··on Tesla may need cash to deliver on the Model 3: Analysts
Ah, that explains SpaceX.
quicklyfrozen··on Red Hat, Jetbrains and Unity Join Dotnet Foundation
Resharper and Jetbrain's other .net tools may be enough of a reason, would be a nice add to VS. Also, MS is clearly showing an interest in Linux ATM and I doubt VS is going cross platform anytime soon, and they know the value of good developer tools.
quicklyfrozen··on For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Good advice. I know I've turned down candidates that aced the technical questions but were so opinionated that it seemed unlikely they'd able to work as part of the team.
quicklyfrozen··on Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet – Pre-order
The surface isn't the only Windows tablet... You definitely could find a Venue Pro under $300 in the past couple years.
quicklyfrozen··on Where are you in your company's layoff list?
Out of curiosity, does this mean you drop older positions completely off the resume? Doesn't this make employers question the time periods not accounted for?

BTW, I've needed a resume a few times even when not looking for a job -- e.g. a potential investor or acquirer wants to see resumes of all key personnel.

quicklyfrozen··on Where are you in your company's layoff list?
Maybe you're thinking on a different timescale then me, but I don't find it that easy to remember all the highlights when I need to update my resume after a couple years.

I also think it would be useful to keep notes on the hard problems you've faced. I find that line of questioning difficult to answer for a couple reasons: first, most of the problems don't seem that difficult once solved, and second, the interviewer is likely to probe for details which I've likely forgotten after a few months.

quicklyfrozen··on MacOS XI: It's time to take the next step (concept)
I don't mind searching to find what I want, but I find myself uncomfortable if I can't then see where it "really" is. In a universe with just tags/labels, it doesn't feel like it's anywhere.
quicklyfrozen··on Vulnerability #319816 – npm responds
Isn't the point of the report more that npm publish will work using save credentials rather then that arbitrary scripts can be run?
quicklyfrozen··on FBI May Demand iOS Source Code, Signing Key
Relocate their HQ and keep this part of the process (packaging all the components into a single build and blessing it) outside of the US?
quicklyfrozen··on FBI May Demand iOS Source Code, Signing Key
They are probably looking for the code signing key, not a data encryption key.
quicklyfrozen··on Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga, Is Replaced as CEO Again
Tetris, having sold more copies then the next 9 top games combined, across multiple platforms and many years, is certainly not a "flash in the pan".
quicklyfrozen··on The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
Well you also have 128 bytes of RAM to work with...
quicklyfrozen··on Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
Certainly agree that leasing won't be cheaper in the long run in most cases. But in the short run it will get you a lower monthly payment, and that's all many care about.

Also agree that leasing helps fix the cost. Besides reliability issues, you win if depreciation is higher then was estimated up front (the one time I leased, the car ended up worth several thousand less then the final balloon payment so I simply turned it back in).

quicklyfrozen··on Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
Not sure where they got their data from, but see https://www.cartelligent.com/blog/which-car-brands-do-people... -- claims 67% leasing for MB, and 70% for BMW.

It's common because people can't really afford them :-), and don't want to finance the full amount if they're not going to keep the vehicle past 3 years anyway.

quicklyfrozen··on The Decline of Sears
Sears: Best place to park if mall is busy :-)
quicklyfrozen··on Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
I'm sure they are -- it's a nice little profit center for them (without even requiring any inventory).
quicklyfrozen··on Volvo recalls 59,000 cars over software fault
Putting this kind of safety-related issue aside, the first purchaser probably won't keep the car long enough to have any real problems (at this price level it's probably a lease). Even if they do, the dealer will give them a loaner (and may even pick up the car) so problems aren't much of an inconvenience.

It's much more of an issue for those of us who like to buy several year old luxury cars -- they have become much harder and more expensive to repair in the last 10 years or so.

quicklyfrozen··on Under-35s in the UK face becoming permanent renters, warns thinktank
Yeah, you just have to live with it because the landlord doesn't care :-).
quicklyfrozen··on VP9 is now available in WebRTC
Considering that encoding is more expensive then decoding, then hardware support for that outgoing stream should still be helpful even if the inbound streams are decoded in SW.

The main issue I've run into trying to handle say 4 streams on a mobile device is that it will work fine for a minute or so until the device needs to throttle back due to heat.

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